Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

ma-cortes General Stitwel (John Hoyt) assigns a dangerous mission to commander Merril (Jeff Chandler) and his 3000 USA Marines volunteers . As the tough officer commands a two-fisted regiment fighting in the jungles of Burma. In 1944 the exhausted unit achieves their latest aim and expects to be relieved . However , Merril has to lead his band throughout the Burmese jungles to his definitive mission in Japonese zone , beyond the enemy lines , at Mykyana . At the end of the movie there is a parade review that features the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.Action , adventure , war movie by the great Samuel Fuller in which Chandler leads a group of soldiers through the Burmese jungle and battling feared Japonese . Support cast is pretty good , such as : Ty Hardin , Claude Akins , Peter Brown , Andrew Duggan , John Hoyt and Will Hutchins . At the beginning , the film being produced by Warner Bros and hired Gary Cooper . However , Cooper died by cancer and then it was totally financed by screenwriter and producer Milton Sperling in a lower budget . Nicely played by Jeff Chandler , an ebullient actor who died by stroke before the movie was released . Colorful cinematography by William H. Clothier , John Ford regular . Well photographed in Warnerscope and Technicolor and shot on location in the Philippines Islands . Furthermore , a thrilling and moving score by Howard Jackson . The motion picture was well directed and co-scripted by Samuel Fuller for three months . Fuller has become something of a cult favorite , an essential and fundamental figure in the film world . Here Fuller excels at showing the mayhem and confusion of battles , giving spectacular frames as when it takes place a desperate pitched fighting at an enemy installation , as a railhead and other overwhelming bloody events . The cigar-chewing Fuller directed several classic movies , such as : ¨The naked Kiss¨ , ¨Pickup on South Street¨ , ¨Underworld USA¨ , ¨shock corridor¨ , ¨Hell and high water¨ , ¨Fixed bayonets¨ , ¨White dog¨ and ¨The big Red one¨.

Spikeopath Merrill's Marauders is directed by Samuel Fuller, who also co-adapts the screenplay with Milton Sperling from the book, The Marauders, written by Charlton Ogburn Jr. It stars Jeff Chandler, Ty Hardin, Andrew Duggan, Claude Akins, Peter brown, Will Hutchins and John Hoyt. A Cinemascope/Technicolor production with music by Howard Jackson and cinematography by William H. Clothier.Cracker-jack war movie, packed to the rafters with blood, sweat and tears, and best of all, gritty realism. Story is about the warfare unit led by Frank Merrill (Chandler) during the Burmese campaign in 1944. Their mission was to destroy Japanese bases to avert the Japanese from making their way into India and onto a rendezvous with Hitler's forces. Their efforts was a success but it came at great cost of lives.Fuller, an ex-soldier himself, isn't interested in glorifying war for entertainment purpose, he wants to keep the focus on the men and what the mission does to them, both physically and mentally. The mission was only meant to be a short sharp shocker, but they keep getting "requested" to push on further beyond what was originally required, pushed to their limits by their leader who asked they follow his lead.In turn the men suffer through lack of food whilst some of them fall to typhus and malaria, inhospitable conditions take their toll, like trekking through miles and miles of swampy terrain, and of course they encounter the enemy on several nerve shredding occasions.As comrades fall and heart breaking letters are written to families, Fuller peppers the picture with haunting moments. A sweep of the aftermath of a battle finds dead bodies from both sides strewn about the place, the surviving Marauders too exhausted to lift themselves off the soil. A soldier breaking down crying, another willing to carry his donkey's load so it will not be shot for holding up the trek and on it goes, a whole ream of memorable instances designed to give us some idea of what the war is hell statement actually means.Filmed on location in the Philippines, it seems a little weird to say that the photography is beautiful given that so much emotional hardship and misery is being portrayed, but Clothier really brings everything to life with his superb use of colour, the great lens-man the ideal fit for Fuller's keen eye for lingering details.Performances are across the board on the good side of good, with Chandler - in what sadly would be his last film before his premature death aged 42 – turning in his best ever work. He puts his all into portraying Merrill, giving him great personality whilst hitting the mark for the various emotional beats required for a leader of men. A leader who himself carries a secret that he doesn't want his men to know about.Stock footage usage from another movie and musical lifts from two more, hint at the economical restraints on the production, but neither affects the all round quality of the picture. Free of cliché's or extraneous pap, this is one excellent – exciting - haunting war movie. 9/10

MisterWhiplash Samuel Fuller knew war, experienced it first hand, and it became apart of who he was artistically as well as impacting him from knowing those he fought alongside that may or may not have come back alive as part of the "Big Red One." This sets apart a film like Merrill's Marauders, which in more commercial hands or those of a hack-for-hire could be fun or exciting in a conventional sense but could also be entirely forgettable as a programmer on a double feature. For Fuller there's a need to tell the stories of such brave soldiers like the Marauders who kept going on and on past all common sense or reasonable action. How much it's truly based on fact would depend, be it on the research of the battle(s) or on the book itself the film is based upon. But what it lacks in fine tuning it makes up for with guts, lots of it, like an endless reservoir.This is indeed what sets apart all of Samuel Fuller's war movies, and he made some truly great ones from Korea (The Steel Helmet) to Germany (nearly lost Verboten!) to his own personal tale with the epic The Big Red One itself. With this story, which tells of Frank Merrill's trials and tribulations getting his troops across swamps and mountains and over hundreds of miles in Burma to stop an invading force of Japanese entering into India, Fuller may not always get the best actors for the job (some are alright, such as Jeff Chanlder, who sadly died shortly after filming ended but went out with a bang, while others are just contract players whom aren't remembered today for a reason of being by definition character actors), and once or twice his pacing goes off or the music doesn't quite click or gets schmaltzy.But damn it all to hell, it's still a Sam Fuller picture, which means there's plenty of truly gripping scenes of war violence, and plenty of small moments that make it stand out. I liked the attachment the one soldier had with his mule, so much so that he would carry what the mule had on its back so it could still walk along the mountains. I liked the little bit where the Philippino soldier refused to tuck in his shirt just because he was told to. I especially liked that calm interlude where the soldiers, for only a seeming moments time, get a respite in a small village where the villagers come to help the beat soldiers who are resting as much as they can before pressing on (with the one assumedly very tough soldier breaking down in tears from the kindness, or just utter frustration or exhaustion). There's also a camaraderie with the soldiers that Fuller knows like the back of his hand - this is where, at the least, it feels and is totally authentic, at least compared to its programmers.What also makes Merrill's Marauders worth watching is that despite the exterior appearance of being about perseverance in the face of all odds, overwhelmingly stacked it would seem, it's really an anti-war picture, or at the very least one that questions such missions as these. I almost wonder if Fuller had been able to make the film years after 1962, where he might have had more freedom to show more grit, more bloodshed, more of the reality that he knew so well and pumped into the soldier experience on the whole. It may be a story of courage, maybe an absurd one with its straight-faced veneer, but it doesn't feel like a true story's tale - it's more about the struggle, the sense that hope could be lost at any second, which is mortifying. It's a B-movie that for all its minor flaws has its heart more than in the right place but the exact one; an antidote for all of those bubble-gum Gung-Ho John Wayne pictures.

ccthemovieman-1 This was a decent World War II movie, but not as exciting as I had hoped it would be. I liked the fact it was exactly that - a war story - with no sappy romance distractions - but yet it was still on the bland side. I can't quite put my finger on it, but some spark was missing. If this was re-made today, I'm sure it would have been more of an attention-grabber.Perhaps part of the minor problem is that the story is a bit of a downer most of the way through (not that war is ever uplifting). It's basically about a group of soldiers who volunteered for this bad assignment (to fight in Burma) and when their assignment was over and they assumed they were going home, they were given further assignments. Battling unrelenting fatigue and extremely difficult terrain means there are very few upbeat moments in this film. In this based-on-a-true story movie, only about 100 soldiers were left fighting after 3,000 started. Yet a lot of the movie just shows the poor guys sloshing through swamps or slowing trying to make their way up treacherous mountain terrain.You get a few minor attempts at some humor to break up the depressing story, but they are weak such as the stereotypical southerner with his pet mule who wears a straw hat.In some respects, this film reminded me of "The Big Red One," which also was directed by Sam Fuller but had a lot more intensity and passion to it.Jeff Chandler and Ty Hardin were fine in the lead roles, as was Claude Atkins in a supporting one. Chandler and Atkins looked like tough, battle-scarred soldiers more than the others. Hardin has too much pretty-boy looks and voice for this role, although his acting was fine.Overall, okay, but not worth a second look.